5
CVSSv2

CVE-2000-0039

Published: 29/12/1999 Updated: 10/09/2008
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

AltaVista search engine allows remote malicious users to read files above the document root via a .. (dot dot) in the query.cgi CGI program.

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altavista search intranet 2.0b

altavista search intranet 2.3a

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/896/info The AltaVista Search engine sets up a webserver at port 9000 to listen for search queries The main search function will accept a single '/' string in the query, providing access to all documents in the 'http' directory one level up These documents contain various administrative information, inc ...